Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:52:46 03/18/01
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On March 18, 2001 at 10:37:22, Frank Phillips wrote: >On March 18, 2001 at 10:10:11, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On March 18, 2001 at 09:04:45, Frank Phillips wrote: >> >>>I am having trouble connecting to icc (chessclub.com) with timestamp under >>>Linux. >>>Xboard works fine without timestamp. >>>I downloaded timestamp (linux-2.2.14), into the xboard directory, renamed it as >>>timestamp and got this when trying to connect: >>> >>> >>>/home/fp/xboard-4.2.3/xboard -zp -ics -icshost chessclub.com -fcp >>>/home/fp/searcher/searcher/searcher5 -fd /home/fp/searcher/searcher -thinking >>>-ponder -size Medium -icshelper timestamp -zippyPassword beer >>> >>>timestamp: Network is unreachable >>>timestamp: can't connect to server >>>xboard: Connection closed by ICS >>> >>> >>>Any help appreciated. >>> >> >>try adding -icshost 204.178.125.65 >> >>It is working fine on my linux boxes... >> >>>Frank > >Thanks Bob, that worked. >No idea why. Presumably the decimal address is chessclub.com > >Frank Probably was caused by ICC moving their server a good while back, while the old address was hard-coded into timestamp, rather than doing a lookup with gethostbyname()...
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